Purpose

Skip Down or Up Over Space or Text Lines.

Operation

This function moves the cursor to the first character of a
line of a block of information. The operation can go either up
or down and can skip over lines that contain nothing but
whitespace or lines that contain some text.

Example

Move cursor down to first line that contains text.

tlaSkip( "D", "S" );

Move cursor up to first line that contains all whitespace.

tlaSkip( "U", "T" );

Input Parameters

Parm

Name

Code

Meaning

1

Direction

"D"

Move cursor down.

"U"

Move cursor up.

2

Skip Over

"S"

Skip over spaces.

"T"

Skip over text.

Return Codes

Code

Message/Meaning

-1

tlaSkip: Parameter missing.

-1

tlaSkip: Direction (parm 1) not "D" or "U".

-1

tlaSkip: Skip Over (parm 2) not "S" or "T".

-1

tlaSkip: Direction (parm 1) not "D" or "U" and skip over (parm 2) not "S" or "T".

Installation

Create a file in Visual SlickEdit with type Slick-C and extension ".e".

Issue Ctl-V (paste).

Issue Ctl-S (save).

Select PFK-12 to compile the macros.

Purchase

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Slick-C module that contains all of the Slick-C macros on this
website in a single easy to install package. The tlaSlick module can be purchased
by selecting the Buy button
on this page.